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barney, 5 days ago to random

Genocide looms again in Darfur. Will the world stop it from happening?

No? No encampments? No shutting down museums and blocking Pride parades? Nobody cares? Okay.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/03/darfur-genocide-sudan-peacekeepers-famine/

barney, 11 days ago to journalism

A judge who swore to uphold the law is instead deliberately destroying the law. She is a loyal soldier in a violent insurrection, and a deliberate accomplice in the worst crimes committed against the United States since our first civil war.

The New York Times describes her as "industrious but inexperienced and often insecure."

This is why democracy is dying: Because the New York Times is killing it.

#Journalism #Propaganda #USPol #fascism

barney, 11 days ago to Israel

Right-wing journalists in #Israel celebrate and joke about the fire in #Rafah that burned dozens of civilians to death. Even the IDF called it a tragic loss of life.

These people are unfathomably evil. And the Republican Party is every bit as evil as they are. Please, please do not let these monsters control the US government. Humanity will pay a terrible price.

#USPol

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-27/ty-article/.premium/right-wing-israeli-journalists-celebrate-rafah-attack-likening-it-to-lag-baomer-bonfire/0000018f-b983-dca9-a5cf-bd832e6e0000

barney, 14 days ago to random

This morning, at least two suspects opened fire at a Jewish girls' elementary school in Toronto.

Will someone dare to show up in my replies and claim this is "antizionism, not #antisemitism"?

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/05/25/gunfire-evidence-found-at-elementary-school-in-north-york/

barney, 18 days ago to legal

"Special counsel Jack Smith appears to have suspected additional efforts by former President Donald Trump to obstruct the government's investigation of his handling of classified documents, a newly unsealed court filing revealed Tuesday."

#USPol #Legal

https://abcnews.go.com/US/special-counsel-suspected-additional-obstruction-effort-trump-classified/story?id=110438582

barney, 1 month ago to Palestine

I've heard from 2 college students who went to events that were billed as "student rallies" ("for peace" and "supporting #Palestine," respectively), but turned out to be led by violent radicals who weren't affiliated with their schools.

This "United for #Israel" march at #Columbia was organized by 3 right-wing Christian nationalist extremists who are not Israeli, not Jewish, and not Columbia-affiliated.

We're all being played. Think about who gains from this. They are destroying us.

#USPol

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barney, 1 month ago to Israel

Here are so-called "protesters" in Manhattan last week, with a Hezbollah flag and a Hamas headband.

Everyone who's saying "peaceful protesters!" and "it's not #antisemitism!" needs to STFU for a minute.

Hamas and Hezbollah are antisemitic terrorist groups. In 1994, Hezbollah drove a car bomb into a Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people and wounding 300 more.

If you think killing every Jew in the world is "resistance," you're a sick piece of shit.

#USPol #Israel #Gaza

barney, 1 month ago to random

I checked Google Maps. It's about 1,000 feet.

The New York Stock Exchange, where these Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists were "protesting" last week, is about 1,000 feet from where similar terrorists brought down the World Trade Center on 9/11.

Do you remember the 9/11 attacks? Do you remember anyone saying they were "heroic" or "exhilarating"?

#USPol #Gaza #terrorism #antisemitism

barney, 1 month ago to Columbia

Robert #Kraft has issued a statement, saying he will no longer donate to #Columbia.

Kraft claims Columbia gave him a "full academic scholarship," but that's a lie. No Ivy League school has offered merit-based scholarships since 1954.

Also, please note that Kraft supported Donald Trump, the world's single most dangerous antisemitic hatemonger. Robert Kraft is full of shit.

#USPol #antisemitism

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/columbia-university-protests-robert-kraft/

barney, 1 month ago to journalism

Trump lies with every breath. His Big Lie, that he won the 2020 election, incited a bloody coup attempt, and turned the entire Republican Party into a revolutionary terrorist group that is trying to overthrow our government. Because of Trump's lies, we will all spend the rest of our lives in the midst of a civil war.

Also, occasionally, Biden misremembers facts.

This garbage from the Los Angeles Times is despicable fascist #propaganda disguised as #journalism.

#USPol

barney, 1 month ago to iran

#Iran is about to attack #Israel, starting a massive war between two major military powers.

This is happening only because #Putin, #Netanyahu, #Trump, #Khamenei, and #Hamas are all closely allied with each other, and they're all desperate to get Trump reelected. And it's going to work -- our incompetent media will push the lie that "this war is Biden's fault."

We must find some way to break this chain of events, or we will lose our democracy forever.

#USPol

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/biden-is-cutting-short-a-beach-weekend-to-meet-with-his-national-security-team-amid-mideast-tensions/

barney, 2 months ago to syria

#ISIS is back in the news.

Remember: In 2019, Trump suddenly withdrew US forces from Syria. He betrayed America's Kurdish allies, who had lost 11,000 soldiers fighting against ISIS. He left our brothers in arms to be beheaded by Erdoğan's jihadists, and he left thousands of ISIS prisoners to escape. "Five years of work—undone."

Why did Trump do it? What did he get in return?

Nothing. He did it because he's Erdoğan's bitch, and Erdoğan told him to.

#USPol #Syria

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/chaos-in-syria-isis-detainees-escape-as-the-us-pulls-out

barney, 2 months ago to random

NYT just published this account of Merrick Garland's catastrophic failure as Attorney General.

The lede is buried, even though it appears just under the headline: "Mr. Garland did not count on... Trump's political resurrection."

Nobody in DC has a right to be that f*cking stupid. It was Garland's job to stop Trump's reign over the GOP, by starting where Mueller left off.

Because Garland refused to do his job, nothing #DOJ does to Trump now will matter at all.

#USPol

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/us/politics/trump-jan-6-merrick-garland.html

barney, 2 months ago to random

This past weekend, an arsonist set fire to a Jewish community center in Florida.

#antisemitism

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-792498

barney, 2 months ago to Israel

"Schumer said out loud what many of Israel's friends are thinking..."

"As a lifelong supporter of Israel, it has become clear to me: The Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel..."

We Americans are one step behind Israel, on the same path. We are about to reelect our own genocidal right-wing extremist, as Israel did. If we do that, we will cause even worse atrocities. Far, far worse.

(non-paywalled link to WaPo op-ed): https://archive.is/Efy5Y

#USPol #Israel

barney, 2 months ago to random

Fascist investment banker Steven Mnuchin is assembling an investor group to buy TikTok.

#USPol #fascism #propaganda

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/14/former-treasury-secretary-mnuchin-is-putting-together-an-investor-group-to-buy-tiktok.html

barney, 2 months ago to Beatles

Last night, Trump hosted a party at Mar-a-Lago welcoming Hungary's fascist ruler Viktor Orbán.

The party featured the Palm Beach Symphony, the unofficial orchestra of American fascism, as well as a Beatles tribute band and a Rolling Stones tribute band.

Does anyone recognize the fascist #Beatles tribute band?

(full video: https://twitter.com/PM_ViktorOrban/status/1766511259506102676)

#fascism #USPol #Trump #Orban

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barney, 3 months ago to lies

In the Republican response to Biden's #StateOfTheUnion address, Senator #KatieBritt told a heart-wrenching story about a woman who was a survivor of cross-border sex trafficking, and tried to blame that horrible crime on Biden.

As it turns out, Senator Britt was lying.

https://www.tiktok.com/@katzonearth/video/7344090454985624862

#USPol #sotu #lies #politicians #biden2024 #trump2024 #immigration #traffickingawareness #mexico #bordersecurity

barney, 3 months ago to Israel

Israel's religious extremist finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, just ramped up his ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. The US immediately condemned the move as illegal.

#Smotrich and #Bibi share the goal of getting Trump elected, and they've seen that atrocities against Palestinians are an easy way to make it happen. Is this a team effort, designed to let Bibi maintain at least token concessions to Biden?

I'm interested in takes from #Israel politics experts.

#USPol

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68490034

barney, 3 months ago to random

Sometimes, the pro-fascist leftists do it for free. But, other times, they monetize.

#Grift #USPol

barney, 3 months ago to random

Holy shit. WTF is the fascist ruler of Hungary doing at Mar-a-Lago? And is Elon Musk going to join them? His plane just landed at West Palm Beach yesterday.

#USPol #fascism

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-viktor-orban-mar-a-lago-visit-rcna141449

barney, 3 months ago to Israel

Biden secured a ceasefire commitment from #Israel, and today the US military began airdropping food into #Gaza. Biden is also planning aid shipments by sea.

Biden: "Innocent people got caught in a terrible war, unable to feed their families."

Republicans: "There are very few innocent Palestinian citizens." "We should kill them all."

The fucking "#uncommitted" scumbags are telling Americans to elect Trump.

#USPol

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/02/airdrop-gaza-food-military/

https://wpln.org/post/we-should-kill-them-all-tn-congressman-andy-ogles-responds-to-questions-on-us-involvement-in-gaza/

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4288268-brian-mast-innocent-palestinian-civilians/

barney, 3 months ago to Israel

This is why I have no hope for #Gaza, or #Israel, or the US.

#Hamas, #Likud, #Putin, and the #GOP are all barbaric regimes that sacrifice their own civilians' lives to stay in power. All are strongly opposed to a truce, and they all desperately want to get Trump elected.

Americans are now so horrifically detached from reality, any tragedy, like this one, helps get Trump elected. And Putin, Hamas, and Bibi can cause these tragedies whenever they want. They will.

#USPol

https://www.timesofisrael.com/dozens-of-gazans-said-killed-in-stampede-for-aid-idf-opens-fire-blamed-for-deaths/

barney, 3 months ago to Michigan

Biden's White House is exploring using military planes to airdrop humanitarian aid into #Gaza.

Trump's White House will explore using military planes to carpet bomb the remaining 2 million Gazans who Bibi hasn't managed to kill yet.

Those "vote uncommitted" scumbags in #Michigan are trying to convince Palestinian-Americans, whose loved ones will be staring up at those B-52s, to elect Trump.

#USPol #Israel #Gaza #Genocide

https://www.axios.com/2024/02/28/biden-airdrop-aid-gaza-israel

barney, 3 months ago to journalism

Words cannot express how monumentally and catastrophically our goddamned press has fucked up our country.

Donald Trump is a rapist, a psychopath, and a moron. He is often frankly psychotic. He tried to murder our vice president and overthrow our government. And look at this fucking shit from the New York Times:

#USPol #Journalism